Regulation 19 Offences by bodies corporate

(1)

Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under regulation 16, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—

(a)

any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or

(b)

any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,

he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of that body corporate.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), references to a “body corporate” include references to a partnership in Scotland, and, in relation to such a partnership, any reference to a director or other officer of a body corporate is a reference to a partner.